Appending text in a file

[Mailing List Account for Jason Runyan]

On Friday 25 April 2003 15:41, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> I have an LDIF file with a bit over 300 entries.  I need to append some
> text (",ou=contacts,dc=tarcanfel,dc=net")  to each line that begins with
> "dn:".
>
> Surely there's an easy way to script this.
>
> Using sed, I can append text, but only as the next line.
>
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create a vim script with "%s/^dn:.*$/&,ou=contacts,dc=tarcanfel,dc=net/g"
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